LUXASIA is the leading and largest beauty omnichannel brand-builder of Asia Pacific. Since 1986, it has successfully enabled market entry and brand growth for more than 100 luxury beauty brands, the likes of Albion, Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Creed, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Montblanc, Rabanne, Ferragamo, and SK-II. LUXASIA has established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Revlon (for Elizabeth Arden), Puig, Shiseido, and Orveon (for Laura Mercier). The Group's integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing & analytics, and supply chain management. LUXASIA is powered by a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2700 talents across a growing footprint of 15 markets.
Why Join Us
At LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent – that is you.
We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you the autonomy but not without guidance and genuine care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling.
With LUXASIA, an exciting career filled with robust professional growth awaits you. Isn’t that beautiful?
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Position Purpose
The Assistant Demand Planning Manager will be responsible for supporting the Demand & Supply Planning Manager in the overall delivery of the company’s Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process. This position will also be in charge of demand forecasting, supply planning, and inventory management for an assigned brand/category along side managing direct reports. This position will be the counterpart for Sales and Marketing team to address all supply chain related issues and will also take the lead in aligning overall supply chain process with Supply Logistics, Article Master, Product Compliance, as well as Logistics and Warehousing teams.
Description of Duties
Develops and own the rolling baseline forecast on a per brand and SKU level review and analyzes historical trends, and demand drivers to evaluate forecast results. Reviews total item level forecasts to ensure alignment with business plans and consistency with market trends
Facilitates the Demand Planning/Forecast Review Meeting with Brand to generate bottom-up forecast on a monthly basis
Provides focus and integration of data from Marketing, Sales, Customer Marketing, and Finance to develop accurate consensus total forecast by incorporating commercial plans to baseline forecast
Ensures that all agreements from monthly forecast meetings are incorporated into the final forecasts
Communicates forecast deviations and challenges assumptions; Provides visibility on risks and opportunities in forecast vs financial budget/estimates during the monthly cycle
Identify and resolve exceptional changes in the forecasts and ensures supply availability
Validates the S&OP Forecast versus financial budget and latest estimates for assigned brand as well as for direct reports
Calculates the monthly orders / purchases based on S&OP Forecast, lead time, and pre-determined parameters based on KPI, company standard, and contractual budget
Manages inventory within supply planning parameters (days cover, safety stocks, lead-time, etc.) ordering of stocks while balancing inventory KPIs and contractual purchase obligation with Principal
Provide visibility on the arriving new launches to be registered in FDA
Works with cross-functional departments in improving KPIs such as Stockholding, Forecast Accuracy, Service Level, and Inventory Mix, SLOB and E&O
Monitors, flags and follow…